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European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights has written this guide to provide basic assistance to intellectual property (IP) right holders and theirs advisers, on the protection and enforcement systems in the Russian Federation. The guide is intended to provide simple guidelines on how right holders can protect their IP assets and what to do […]

The United States expects from Tajikistan to implement fully amendments of its Customs Code and to ensure the correspondent authority to its customs and criminal enforcement officials. The major issues for Tajikistan, as per the US, remain criminal IPR infringement, optical disc piracy, government use of unlicensed software. For that reason, The United States will […]

According to the 2014 Special 301 Report, Russia is still on the Priority Watch List due to not resolved issues related to the Intellectual property rights protection and enforcement. As per the Special 301 the major concerns about Russian IP protection system are:”manufacture, transshipment and retail availability of counterfeit goods, including counterfeits of agricultural chemicals, […]